While working on my poem for the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations: Holiday Poems for the Whole Year in English and Spanish, I wrote a number of poems for August 3rd, which is National Watermelon Day. Here is one of the early drafts that I've played with a bit.
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from yellow flowers
sprouts a fruit
round or oval
green with stripes
pick it
eat it
when it’s ripe
hold a half-moon
in your hands
find the spot
just right to start
bite it
chew it
spit seeds out
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2014-2019. All rights reserved.
Happy Monday all. See you tomorrow for another original poem.
Hold a half-moon in your hands - I love it.
ReplyDeleteIt's like holding the whole of a season in a single moment.
::sigh::
I need summer to come with a time machine for childhood.